Allude

Quick meaning: Allude is a verb meaning (intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to invoke it by implication rather than mention.

Meaning

(intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to invoke it by implication rather than mention.

Example Sentences

These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use.

First, she alluded to her husband as "the man at home looking after the children". Then she referred to him as "my George".

It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.

We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.

Word Forms

• alludes
• alluding
• alluded

Synonyms for allude

Depending on context, synonyms include advert, hint, imply, indicate, inkle, insinuate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include touch, advert, hint, mention, impute, refer.

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